Durga Saptashati Path in Varanasi (दुर्गा सप्तशती पाठ)
the seven-hundred-verse reading kept through Navratri
2 verified pandits serve Varanasi. Each one is named, with the checks he has completed, before any payment is made.
- From
- ₹5,899
- Pandits available
- 2
Available pandits in Varanasi
Packages and prices in Varanasi
| Basic | ₹5,899 |
|---|---|
| Standard | ₹6,499 |
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What the price is made of
- Pandit fee
- Paid to the named pandit who performs the ritual.
- Samagri
- The items the ritual needs, itemised when the package includes them.
- Travel
- The pandit's travel to the address you give, by distance band.
- Platform fee
- What BookMyPandiit charges to run the platform. It is a line of its own: it is never taken out of the pandit's fee and never presented as dakshina.
- Temple charge
- Charged by the temple when the ritual is performed there, and only then.
- GST
- Tax charged as the law requires, shown separately.
- Duration
- 5 hrs
- Pandits
- 2
- Venue
- home, temple
- Samagri included
- yes
About Durga Saptashati Path
The Durga Saptashati is seven hundred verses on the goddess's defeat of Mahishasura, Madhu and Kaitabha, and Shumbha and Nishumbha, read in thirteen chapters. A full path takes three to four hours and is read in one sitting; families that cannot sit that long keep the navaha over nine days or have named chapters read instead.
It is kept through both Navratris, on Ashtami and Navami, and at a Shakta household's own occasions. The reading is preceded by a kalash sthapana and a sankalp, and the text has its own rules — the kavacha, argala and kilaka before it and the Devi Suktam after — which a pandit who works in this tradition will keep to.
Keeping a rite in Varanasi
Varanasi does more ritual per day than any city on this list, and the effect is that everything is available and nothing is quiet. A rite kept on a ghat shares the ghat; one kept at a temple is fitted between the temple's own aartis, which are fixed and do not move for a booking.
The city's own pandits are trained in karmakanda to a depth that is unusual, so a question about why a step is done a particular way tends to get an answer from a named authority. The lanes are the practical constraint: the last stretch to most addresses is walked, and samagri is carried in.
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